Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

If you thought Shakespeare was the Father of English Literature, you have been living in a lie all your life. It was Geoffrey ...

The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been released, offering a first glimpse of Matt Damon as Odysseus on his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. Shot entirely on IMAX cameras, ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had its first trailer premiere online this week, and while most are excited about the movie, ...

This is a common trope, but Nolan can finally move past it in one of the oldest stories put to paper. In adapting The Odyssey ...

An intricate Roman floor in rural England has turned out to be far more than decoration. Archaeologists now argue that its 800-year-old design preserves a forgotten version of the Trojan War, a ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

History is replete with moments so ingrained in popular culture that most people simply assume they must be true. But many of the most well-known stories of all time are not based on real events.

Madeline Denniston, Third Year, also successfully reached the final and performed phenomenally, in what was a tough ...

The ancient Greek story of the Trojan War is one of history’s most famous. After the Trojan prince Paris takes the beautiful (but already married) Helen of Sparta as his lover, her husband Menelaus ...